GCES Principal Update for November
November 2, 2026
🧡🖤 November Principal Update -Goshen Creek Elementary | Better Together! 🐾
Dear Goshen Creek Elementary Family,
What an OUTSTANDING October we had at Goshen Creek Elementary! 🧡🖤🐾 Our month was filled with excitement, school spirit, learning, laughter, and unforgettable memories! I am incredibly grateful for our amazing students, dedicated staff, and supportive families who work together to make Goshen Creek such a special place. Together, we are creating meaningful experiences and making a lasting difference in the lives of our students!
📚 Building a Culture of Readers
As we continue to grow and strengthen our students' academic success, I encourage all families to make reading together a nightly priority. Our students bring home academic bags filled with familiar reads, sight words, library books, flashcards, and other valuable learning resources. These materials provide wonderful opportunities to reinforce classroom learning while making learning fun at home!
Your partnership makes a tremendous difference! By dedicating a little time each evening to reading and practicing academic skills, we are building a strong foundation for our students that will last a lifetime. Together, we are developing confident readers and lifelong learners!
🧡🖤🐾 Goshen Creek Elementary Morning Reminder: Our campus doors open at 7:10 A.M., and the tardy bell rings promptly at 7:35 A.M. We appreciate your continued partnership in ensuring all students arrive on time, prepared, and ready for a GREAT day of learning! Together, we are setting our Porcupines up for success! 🧡🖤
Student Drop-Off Reminder: We kindly ask for your partnership in ensuring that all students remain in their vehicles until they reach one of our two designated drop-off zones. For the safety of our students, staff, and community members, please use these designated areas when dropping off your child. Thank you for your cooperation and continued commitment to keeping our Goshen Creek Family safe!
🧡 Big Kahuna Fundraiser & Fall Book Fair Success!
WOW! What an incredible demonstration of support from our Goshen Creek Family!
Thanks to your generosity and participation, our Big Kahuna Fundraiser raised approximately $30,000! These funds will be combined with money raised over the previous two years to support our campus playground rejuvenation project. Once our final fundraising totals are confirmed, we will continue working with our playground equipment company to bring this exciting vision to life! Our goal is to provide our students with an updated section of playground where they can learn, play, and create lasting memories. I look forward to sharing updates as our plans progress!
Our 2026 Fall Library Book Fair was another tremendous success, generating approximately $25,000 in sales! Proceeds earned by our school will be reinvested directly into our students through the purchase of new library books and rewards for our reading incentive program. What a wonderful way to continue building a culture of readers at Goshen Creek!
Final fundraising totals and proceeds are still being calculated, and I will share those numbers once everything has been finalized.
I cannot thank our families, staff, students, and community enough for your continued generosity and support. Every contribution helps us provide meaningful opportunities and lasting improvements for our students. We truly are BETTER TOGETHER!
🧡Goshen Creek Elementary PTA Fundraising Night at Mas Salsa!
Everybody be sure to mark your calendars for this event on Friday, November 16, 2026. Let's all meet there and have a special time together and raise money for PTA to give back to our school. See more details regarding this event in the graphic embedded below.
📚 Book Vending Machine Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony!
We are excited to announce that Goshen Creek Elementary will celebrate the dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony for our NEW Book Vending Machine on Wednesday, November 4, 2026! 🧡🖤📚
Thanks to the incredible generosity and partnership of the Springtown Education Foundation and Atmos Energy, our campus has been blessed with this wonderful addition that will help us continue building a strong culture of readers!
At Goshen Creek Elementary, we believe that HARD WORK PAYS OFF and deserves to be recognized and celebrated! Our new book vending machine will provide an exciting opportunity to reward students for their dedication to reading, building reading stamina, and developing a lifelong love of books. What better way to celebrate their accomplishments than by giving them the gift of a book to call their very own!
We are beyond grateful to the Springtown Education Foundation and our amazing community partners at Atmos Energy for investing in our students and helping us bring this exciting opportunity to life! Stay tuned for more details and special moments from our ribbon-cutting ceremony as we begin celebrating our hardworking readers and their accomplishments. Together, we are turning the pages toward a brighter future, one book at a time! 🧡🖤🐾
🎃 Goshen Creek Elementary Boo Bash: A Night of Fun & Community!
Our annual Goshen Creek Elementary PTA Boo Bash was another AMAZING success! 🧡🖤🎃 Students, parents, families, and community members came together for an unforgettable evening filled with fun activities, games, food trucks, laughter, and special memories—all at no cost to attend!
A HUGE round of applause goes to our incredible Goshen Creek Elementary PTA and GCES Watch D.O.G.S. for their hard work, selflessness, dedication, and teamwork in making this event possible! Their commitment to serving our students and families continues to make a lasting difference in our school and community. We also want to thank our amazing parents and staff for pouring their creativity into their vision of creating their booths that helped to make this an evening to not forget.
The smiles, laughter, and excitement throughout our building were a wonderful reminder of what makes our Goshen Creek Family so special! What began as a school celebration has grown into a beloved annual tradition that students and families throughout our community look forward to each year.
We are beyond grateful for everyone who helped make this evening such a tremendous success! Together, we are creating precious memories, strengthening community connections, and showing that we truly are BETTER TOGETHER! 🧡🖤🐾
🌱 Growing Something Special: The Goshen Garden!
You may have noticed a few new containers appearing near the front of our campus! We are excited to share that our Goshen Creek Elementary Student Council received a generous donation of garden kit materials to help bring the vision of a school garden to life!
As part of their service project, our Student Council members will take the lead in creating the Goshen Garden, a special space that will provide hands-on learning opportunities while encouraging responsibility, teamwork, and pride in our school.
This project will be a wonderful opportunity for our students to plant positive seeds today that will continue growing for years to come! 🌱
Stay tuned for more exciting details as our Goshen Garden begins to take shape!
🥣🧡 Goshen Creek Elementary Student Council Soup Kit Drive! 🖤🐾
Our amazing GCES Student Council is on a mission to spread kindness and make a difference in our community, one soup kit at a time! ❤️ We are collecting donations of soup kit ingredients through Thursday, November 12, 2026, to support the Center of Hope in Springtown, Texas. Every donation, big or small, helps provide for families in need and gives our students a meaningful opportunity to serve others! 🥫💛
Thank you, Goshen Creek Family, for helping our Student Council spread love, kindness, and hope throughout our community! Together, we are BETTER TOGETHER! 🧡🖤🐾
🍂 A Season of Gratitude & Thankfulness
As we welcome November, a month centered around gratitude and thankfulness, I am reminded of how truly blessed I am to be part of this incredible Goshen Creek Family.
I am especially thankful for each and every parent, guardian, student, and staff member who partners with us to ensure our children have the very best opportunities to learn, grow, and succeed. Your kindness, encouragement, and commitment to our school make a difference every single day.
November is filled with wonderful opportunities to celebrate, learn, and grow together! Please take a few moments to read our November Principal Update and mark your calendars for the exciting events ahead.
As we approach Thanksgiving, I encourage our families to reflect on the many blessings surrounding us and continue spreading kindness throughout our school and community. Every small act of kindness has the power to make a BIG difference!
I hope all of our Goshen Creek families enjoy a wonderful Thanksgiving break filled with love, laughter, and precious memories with those who mean the most.
Thank you for trusting us with your precious children and for being such an important part of our Goshen Creek Family. I am looking forward to another AMAZING month together as we continue to be ALL IN for our students!
Better Together! 🧡🖤🐾
With gratitude and appreciation,
Wendy Ashley
Principal
Goshen Creek Elementary
📅 Important November Dates
Week of November 2–6
November 3–6: PAW Store Week! Students will redeem their hard-earned PAW Points for special experiences across campus.
November 3: Big Kahuna Fundraiser Pickup | 11:00 AM–4:00 PM in the Gym
November 3: Third Six Weeks Begins
November 5: Report Cards Go Home
November 6: Celebration Assembly | 7:30 AM
November 6: Choose Love & Sharp Pine Lunch Celebrations (Award Recipients Only)
Week of November 9–13
November 9: Fourth Grade Veterans Day Program at Springtown High School | 6:30 PM
November 11: Veterans Day Breakfast at GCES (Pre-registration Required) | 7:10–8:00 AM
November 11: All-School Veterans Day Program | 8:30 AM
November 12: PTA Meeting in the Library | 7:45–8:30 AM
November 12: World Kindness Day Celebration 💛
November 12: Fall Picture Retakes
November 13: Second Grade Field Trip to the Zoo
Week of November 16–20
November 18: Education Support Professionals Day
November 20: Fire Drill Practice
November 20: Second Grade Scarecrow Hoedown
November 20: Second–Fourth Grade Progress Reports Go Home
🦃 November 23–27: Thanksgiving Break
No School — Enjoy this special time with family and loved ones!
We look forward to welcoming our Porcupines back to campus on Monday, November 30, 2026! 🧡🖤🐾
